CBS Showcases ‘The Unicorn,’ ‘Evil,’ ‘Carol’s Second Act’ and ‘All Rise’ at TCA
Even as audiences continue to fragment in this multi-platform world, there’s no question that broadcast network television still got game – and lots of it. Perhaps the argument for the desirability of network TV was most succinctly made by CBS Entertainment president Kelly Kahl and senior executive vice president of programming Thom Sherman as they opened the Eye’s session at the Television Critics Assn. summer press tour last week in...
Discovery’s ‘Serengeti’ Takes Viewers on an Emotional Journey with Africa’s Animals
You may have already seen and loved “The Lion King,” so you’ll want to get ready for an adjacent adventure in Africa in “Serengeti,” Discovery’s new six-part series premiering Sunday night. Director and producer John Downer, a wildlife photographer with three decades of experience, teamed with Simon Fuller, known as the creator of the “Idol” series in the UK and the US for “Serengeti,” which is voiced by Oscar-winning actress Lupita...
PBS Spotlights Ken Burns’ ‘Country Music’ and new Jane Austen Drama Series ‘Sanditon’
While other networks are undergoing the aftereffects of consolidations and management changes, PBS remains under the steady hand of Paula Kerger, whose contract as president and CEO has been renewed for five years. Kerger kicked off the public broadcaster’s Television Critics Assn. summer press tour Monday in Beverly Hills by announcing her new deal, which runs through 2024. “I believe so strongly in the purpose and power of...
Press Tour Preview of Cable and Streaming’s New Shows Destined to be Binges
It’s not often when someone gets a warm round of sustained applause at the Television Critics Association press tour, but that’s what happened when HBO’s Quentin Schaffer took the stage at the Beverly Hilton last week. The week before, he had announced his exit after 39 years as communications chief at the network and he told the assembled audience of journalists that he wanted to do one last TCA. He said it was his 100th, because he...
‘One Giant Leap for Mankind:’ Networks Mark the 50th Anniversary of Apollo 11
July 16, 1969 dawned bright, hot and sunny on Florida’s Atlantic coast. It was the perfect weather on Earth to send its very first three inhabitants to the moon. As the clock ticked down to the moment Neil Armstrong, Buzz Aldrin and Michael Collins would blast off atop a Saturn V rocket, hundreds of millions of people the world over tuned into television coverage of what would become one of the defining events in mankind’s history on...
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